All in all, a very weak impact from the CMEs. The Bz was South for a bit but changed to North around 08:00z. Density in the first wave peaked at near 35 p/cu.cm. In the past several hours the density went up to near 50p/cu.cm., but Bz has remained North.

How is it that the sun can time its CMEs almost to the minute that STEREO shuts down for the day? There was definitely a CME from the C3.3 flare and probably a big one. Here's the Solarsoft-SDO close-up movie of the flare. The ejecta and shockwave makes it appear more powerful than C3.3 to my eyes.

COMMENT: Solar activity has been low, C-class flares are expected andNOAA AR 1618 remains capable of producing M-Class flares. A longfilament in the south east of the solar disc erupted on November 23,producing a CME with a component in the direction of the Earth, seenfirst at 13:54 UT by COR2 on STEREO Ahead and at 14:10 UT on STEREO-Bwith a calculated speed of 533 km/s. An arrival and correspondinggeomagnetic storm at Earth can be expected late on November 26. A haloCME was seen at 23:36 UT on November 23 by LASCO/C2, but this event isbacksided and will not affect the Earth. The CME from November 20arrived to the Earth with a shock at 21:22 UT on November 23 (with speedaround 400 km/s and magnetic field magnitude of 15 nT) and produced sofar two periods of Kp=4 and three of KDourbes=4 starting at 21:00 UT.Later today, the arrival of the CME from November 21 is expected, activeto minor storm levels (with possible isolated major storm levels) can beexpected.

COMMENT: Solar activity has been low, C-class flares are expected andNOAA AR 1618 remains capable of producing M-Class flares. A longfilament in the south east of the solar disc erupted on November 23,producing a CME with a component in the direction of the Earth, seenfirst at 13:54 UT by COR2 on STEREO Ahead and at 14:10 UT on STEREO-Bwith a calculated speed of 533 km/s. An arrival and correspondinggeomagnetic storm at Earth can be expected late on November 26. A haloCME was seen at 23:36 UT on November 23 by LASCO/C2, but this event isbacksided and will not affect the Earth. The CME from November 20arrived to the Earth with a shock at 21:22 UT on November 23 (with speedaround 400 km/s and magnetic field magnitude of 15 nT) and produced sofar two periods of Kp=4 and three of KDourbes=4 starting at 21:00 UT.Later today, the arrival of the CME from November 21 is expected, activeto minor storm levels (with possible isolated major storm levels) can beexpected.

Those vids were soooooooooo helpful, especially the first one. I did pick up on an inconsistency though. In the beginning they say the magnetosphere protects earth from the solar wind charged particles, yet in the end they say "charged particles from a solar storm can penetrate earth's magnetosphere." Also of interest is the analogy of a circulatory system established to direct the flow and influx. Also clearer to me now, the magnetosphere contains three types of energy fields, low energy cold plasma field co-rotating with earth, a medium energy field of pos and neg charged particles floating around earth, and the intense set of high energy van allen belts. So anyone know how a plasma discharge event, the likes of which are depicted in the petroglyphs all over the world would be formed given this info in the vid? Maybe something would heat up the temp of that cold plasma field and that could be the source. Also thinking this is why they sent those probes into the van allen belts. They may have something to do with the Plasma discharge events. Anywho, thanks tons Hugh for finding and posting that, very educational.

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